WANT TO HELP IN THE CAMPAIGN?

Here are a few things you can do:

1.    Display Posters. You can take some of the campaign posters to display in the lawn in front of you home, at the neighbor’s lawns, on the streets, on the walls where there’re lots of people or traffic passing by. You can also hand these posters of places of business. Displaying these early and properly is very important in introducing the candidate to the voters and making the name more familiar or recognizable to the voters. Sometime name recognition is an important factor in making the difference.

2.    Distribute Brochures and Flyers. You can distribute these documents to your family members, neighbors, friends at work or school, or anyone you know.  You can also get these documents from the web site at www.LanNguyen.com and forward to your friends on the Internet. These documents are a good device to introduce the candidate to the people that you know. Very often, people vote for the candidate just because they know or trust you. People also forward the information to others which makes your work even more effective.

3.    Introduce the Candidate to the Voters. If you know some large groups of voters or where there are potentially large number of voters like apartment complexes, churches, temples, neighborhood meetings, schools, businesses, etc., please make arrangement to introduce the Candidate to these voters. With your introduction or arrangement, the Candidate can be more welcome or receptive to the voters. Of course, it would be much easier to break the ice or get their votes.

4.    Register People to Voter. Part of the campaign is to register people to vote. New voters will almost certainly vote for the candidate by whom they were registered. Registering new voters will certainly enhance the political influence of the voter group you’re working with. Most of new voters would vote only for the people that they know and no one else.

5.    Fill out application for absentee ballots. These applications are very simple to fill out. They require mostly the applicant’s name, address and correct signature. This voting method has increasingly become important for Vietnamese-American voters because it’s a good way to beat the inconvenience of voting on the Election Day. Many elder voters may need a comfortable environment where their children can help in the voting process. It’s also a good way to encourage people to vote because they don’t have to come to the polling place to vote on the Election Day. Like voter registration, people tend to vote for the candidate who sent them the form or assisted them filling out the form for the absentee ballots.

6.    Work the Phone Bank. You can call registered voters in the District to remind them to vote or ask them if we can help them in any way. You can call from the Campaign Office or from your own home.  You can select your own hours or days of  week, but it must be before the Election Date on November 2 of this year. We’ll provide all necessary instructions, phone scripts, list of voters’ names and their phone numbers. You can use either English, Spanish or Vietnamese. You can ask a group of friends to get together at someone’s house to make the calls from there. It’s important that we reach out to the voters to see if they need any help or listen to their concerns about this election.

7.    Walk the precincts.  You can walk around certain streets or neighborhoods within the District to meet the residents, introduce the Candidate Lan Nguyen to them, pass out campaign literature, ask them about their concerns for the election or any thing that we can do to help them for this election. You can pick your own times or your own routes to walk, but the best time to meet residents is usually in the afternoons after work time. Like working on the phone bank, we need to reach out to the resident voters to encourage them to vote and to hear what they have to say about the election.

8.    Work at the Campaign Office.  You can work in the campaign office, answer the phones, help in administrative tasks, enter data into the computers, or anything else that is needed for the campaign.  You can also pick your own time schedule or coordinate with other volunteers at the office.

9.    Ask others to help.  If you have relatives, friends or know someone who lives in within the boundary of the District, you can contact those people and ask them to do any of the above or any of the following: (1) remember to vote on the Election Day, (2) ask their family members and neighbors to vote also, (3) allow the campaign to post the campaign signs on their lawns, (4) introduce the candidate Lan Nguyen to their neighbors around their home, or (5) ask them to make a donation to the campaign if possible.

10.  Make a Donation. Campaigning for this position is not easy as it seems. We need to reach out to almost 120,000 voters and raise at least $50,000 to pay for the basis costs of the campaign.  Each mailer that we send out to the voters costs from $15,000 to $20,000, and we must send out at least three of those mailers just to get enough attention.  The rest of the campaign depends a lot on manual work such as working on the phone bank or walking the precincts.

If you have any other questions, please contact our Campaign Office at 9141 Bolsa Ave., Suite 303, Westminster, CA 92683 or telephone (714) 891-1901 or visit our web site at www.LanNguyen.com